Maniphest T411395

Create a MediaWiki maintenance script to mass remove users from a given global user group
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	Dec 1 2025, 5:38 PM

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A Global User Group version of T185989: Create a MediaWiki maintenance script to mass remove users from a given user group.

While not a common use case, it is useful for cases like T411360: cleanup - depopuplate global oathauth-tester group.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Add a script to empty a global user group	mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth	master	+76 -0

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open		None	T411737 Remove oathauth-tester messages
		Resolved		Urbanecm	T411360 cleanup - depopuplate global oathauth-tester group
		Resolved		Reedy	T411395 Create a MediaWiki maintenance script to mass remove users from a given global user group

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Reedy created this task.Dec 1 2025, 5:38 PM

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Reedy triaged this task as Low priority.Dec 1 2025, 5:38 PM

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Change #1214668 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):

[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Add a script to empty a global user group

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1214668

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 3 2025, 10:59 PM

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Tgr moved this task from Inbox, needs triage to Q3 Kanban Board on the MediaWiki-Platform-Team board.Dec 8 2025, 3:18 PM

Tgr edited projects, added MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Q3 Kanban Board); removed MediaWiki-Platform-Team.

Tgr moved this task from Essential Work to In Progress on the MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Q3 Kanban Board) board.

Change #1214668 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Add a script to empty a global user group

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1214668

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16).Dec 10 2025, 4:00 PM

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Tgr moved this task from In Progress to To be verified in Prod on the MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Q3 Kanban Board) board.Dec 12 2025, 5:33 PM

OWresch-WMF assigned this task to Tgr.Mon, Jan 5, 3:39 PM

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Reedy closed this task as Resolved.Mon, Jan 5, 6:15 PM

Reedy added a parent task: T411360: cleanup - depopuplate global oathauth-tester group.